Gilbert Deprez

Gilbert Deprez (21 May 1777-5 July 1846) was a Colonel of the French Army.

Biography
Gilbert Deprez was born in Chalon-sur-Saone in eastern France in 1777, and was drafted into the French Army in 1793. Deprez was assigned to lead a company of Fusiliers of Line in 1796 and fought in the Italian Campaign of the French Revolutionary Wars. He was given command of his own regiment in 1814 during the Napoleonic Wars, and fought the Austrians at the Battle of Chatillon-sur-Seine. Deprez retired after the downfall of Napoleon, and died in his hometown in 1846.